Three dozen family members and friends of Bosma appeared in court to see them at a routine scheduling date.

No date has been set for the pretrial or trial of the men accused of killing the Ancaster father.

Bosma’s widow Sharlene and parents sat in the front row of the public gallery, just feet from the two men, each of whom are charged with first degree murder.

Bosma, 32, left his rural Ancaster home May 6 for a test drive of the 2007 Dodge Ram truck he was trying to sell over the Internet. His burned body was found at Millard’s Ayr farm.

In court on Tuesday, both of the accused men avoided looking in the direction of Bosma’s weeping family members.

Smich, of Oakville, appeared first in a Plexiglas cubicle in court.

He wore a powder blue sweater and neatly pressed white business shirt.

He kept his eyes down as he slumped in his seat.

After about 10 minutes, he was escorted out of the courtroom.

Millard, of Oakville, appeared preppy and confident as he was led in by a burly court officer.

He is heir to a family which founded and ran Millard Air, a charter airline.

Well-dressed in a black sweater, dress shirt and grey business slacks, he stood with his hands crossed in front of him throughout his five minutes in court.

Neither of the men spoke in court.

Both of them appeared considerably tidier than in their original court appearances five months ago, when Smich sported a baggy T-shirt and a black eye.

They are due to appear next in court on Oct. 31 via video hook-up.

After the court appearances, a spokesperson for Bosma’s family said they aren’t familiar with the legal process and plan to attend whenever possible.

“Sharlene’s going to try to make it to every one she can,” Peter Lowe said.

The pre-trial for the case is expected to begin in 2014.

Millard’s lawyer, Deepak Paradkar, said outside the courthouse that he and his client aren’t concerned with a recent report in the Globe and Mail that investigators have found “linkages” in three cases connected to Millard.

The report stated that an Ontario Provincial Police officer is overseeing a combined probe of Bosma’s murder, the November 2012 death of Millard’s father Wayne Millard and the disappearance of Millard’s former girlfriend, Laura Babcock, 23, in the summer of 2012.

Wayne Millard’s death was originally considered to be a suicide.

“Really, he (Millard) doesn’t make anything of it,” Paradkar said.

“In terms of, me as counsel, we’re focussing on the case that he’s charged with. He hasn’t been charged with anything else. I’m confident that in terms of his father’s investigation, nothing will come of that and I have really no information regarding the other case, the Babcock case, so we really can’t comment on that. We don’t know what the case is about.”